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Example sentences for: cliché

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It can be summed up in a cliché: out of sight, out of mind.
That, as we all know, is a forlorn hope (to abuse a Dutch cliché): those who “know” that when two or more people or things are the subject of a verb you have to use were , not was , regardless of the context, are like those who “know” (like the people at Elizabeth Arden) that millennium is spelled with one n, who “know” that it is Parmagiana , not Parmigiana (like the people at Burger King), and who have no doubt that baking soda, baking powder, washing soda, and ice-cream soda are all the same thing.
A Washington cliché even emerged to praise mindless conformity: "singing from the same songsheet."
I cannot see how she can know that the expression was not already a cliché at the time of its appearance in print.
Such intertextual references, whether or not pointed by rhyme, puns, and rhythmic matching, must indeed provide depth and enrichment if they are not to become merely a stylistic cliché of the scribbling classes (as they show every sign of doing anyway).